Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, The Tide , is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. Therese Philosophe is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. Erzsebet Bathory is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while Lucrezia Borgia concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.